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Save the date: Friday, July 31. That is when the Seattle Storm comes to the Mohegan Sun Arena to play the Connecticut Sun. The Storm will have two of best guards in UConn history, Sue Bird and Renee Montgomery. The Sun traded Montgomery and the Nos. 3 and 15 picks in the 2015 WNBA Draft to Seattle for forward Camille Little and guard/forward Shekinna Stricklen. With Chiney Ogwumike out for at least half the season, the Sun needed to make a move. ... Kemba Walker, who was having a great season (18.8 points, 5.2 assists) had successful knee surgery. The Charlotte Hornets said the former UConn guard will be out at least six weeks. ... Kiah Gillespie of Capital Prep will play for the East in the...

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Save the date: Friday, July 31. That is when the Seattle Storm comes to the Mohegan Sun Arena to play the Connecticut Sun. The Storm will have two of best guards in UConn history, Sue Bird and Renee Montgomery. The Sun traded Montgomery and the Nos. 3 and...

LOS ANGELES— For years, college football fans pleaded for a playoff. Now it's here and it starts at the sport's most hallowed venue, with two Heisman Trophy winners and the defending national champions.Welcome to the College Football Playoff at the Rose...

Friday marked the last day of Domestic Violence Awareness month, but we all know the scourge of domestic violence respects no calendar.Eyes blackened, souls blackened, the sad, repeated story is as old as it is terrifying. Maybe it took Ray Rice's...

TALLAHASSEE -- Jimbo Fisher's voice was raspy, his eyes swollen from fighting back tears.Florida State had survived. Not just the game, but the tumultuous week.Exhausted, Fisher addressed the media after No. 1 FSU's 23-17 overtime victory over then-No. 22...

The Florida State Seminoles, the reigning national champions, were an overwhelming No. 1 in the preseason coaches poll.FSU received 56 of 62 first-place votes in the Amway Coaches Poll released Thursday by USA Today."We're very excited about being...

Six months ago, the NFL season ended with Seattle winning the Super Bowl in Met Life Stadium, the place the Giants and Jets call home. That sure was a bummer for them. And then it snowed. But on Sunday, the 2014 season begins — for the Giants — when...

Jameis Winston, by most accounts, widely wowed scouts and coaches with his charisma and personality at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis. The positive reviews did not necessarily surprise FSU coach Jimbo Fisher, who has adamantly defended and...

Take that, Larry Bird! The Hawks' Dominique Wilkins, then an NBA rookie, says he got so steamed at the Celtic star's incessant trash-talking and a barrage of 3-pointers to back it up that Wilkins drove to the hoop and slammed it home, sending Bird...

Did negative publicity surrounding Jameis Winston and the FSU football program somehow help the Seminoles on the recruiting trail? Jimbo Fisher thinks so.
Fisher, the football program and the university routinely took heat from national media that was...

PASADENA, Calif. – Jameis Winston scrambled, then he slipped. As the football bizarrely squirted out of his hands, a sense of finality swept across FSU’s sideline.
The ball bounced backward, was scooped up by Oregon’s Tony Washington and returned 58...

PASADENA, Calif. - Are you satisfied now, America?
You finally got your wish.
You finally got what you've wanted for two seasons now.
FS-Shoo!
Or, more appropriately - considering Florida State's status as the most despised team in America -...

Jameis Winston feels a sense of relief after being cleared of violating FSU’s code of conduct, according to coach Jimbo Fisher.
"I feel very happy for him and his family, and the people involved. I'm just very happy for him,” Fisher said Monday.
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Jameis Winston vs. Marcus Mariota.
That is the matchup headlining FSU’s contest against Oregon in the Rose Bowl on Jan. 1.
Rightfully so, as Winston won the Heisman Trophy last season and Mariota is the favorite to take home the trophy this year.
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Isaac Nauta, the top-ranked tight end in the country for 2016, made the rich a little richer on Monday when the Buford (Ga.) product pedged to FSU.
Nauta, who has been considered a heavy favorite as an FSU target, picked the Seminoles over 35 other top...

Florida State football coach Jimbo Fisher fired a shot across the bow of all of you naysayers and non-believers Monday morning.
No, we're not talking about those who keep doubting his Seminoles despite their 29-game winning streak. We're talking...

FSU’s youth movement has been well documented this season, but it will be taken to another level against Georgia Tech in the ACC Championship.
Coach Jimbo Fisher announced that RB Karlos Williams will be out with a concussion, and LB Terrance Smith is...

FSU expects to have all of its defensive players at its disposal when it faces Oregon.
Starting DT Eddie Goldman and S Tyler Hunter, along with reserve DB Trey Marshall, did not participate in Sunday’s practice with injuries. However, FSU coach Jimbo...

TALLAHASSEE — FSU's Jalen Ramsey does not fear Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota.He respects him, sure. But Ramsey does not anticipate being in awe when he finds himself lined up across from the Heisman Trophy winner. After all, the FSU defensive back...

FSU was going to give Georgia Tech a steady dose of Dalvin Cook, Jimbo Fisher knew that much.
But FSU’s coach never expected to turn to his freshman running back 31 times in the ACC Championship. Cook became the first FSU back since Greg Jones in 2002 to...

The road to the Rose Bowl has been an arduous one for FSU.
While the Seminoles’ record is perfect, the season has been anything but that. Playing with the burden of defending a national championship while dealing with numerous off-field distractions, the...